THE CRIPPLED BOY WHO DISOBEYED THE GODS. ‘Sons 
was handsome. As soon as he saw himself and found himself to be a 
fine-looking young man he began to think of women, and of whom he 
should choose for his wife. On the following day he stopped for a 
while, trying to decide whether to wait until night, or to enter the 
village during the daytime. He thought this over and over again, 
deciding whether he should remain until night or whether to enter 
the village during daylight. He decided to enter the village during the 
daytime, and to make himself known to the people, and tell them where 
he had been since he had disappeared. He saw with his own eyes, on 
the edge of the village, men and women playing all kinds of games, 
arrow games, shinny games, and double-ball games. He especially 
wanted to pass near the double-ball game, because that is a woman’s 
game, and the could get a close view of the young women and be seen; 
then, when night should come, he knew that some one would come 
around where he was. After thinking all this over he went on to the 
village instead of obeying the animals who had forbidden him to enter 
the village during the daytime, and to ‘have any thought of women. 
When he arrived at the place where all of the games were being 
played he had on all his fine dress, his war-bonnet, shield, quiver, and 
a good many other things that he was carrying. Every woman turned 
and looked at him, to see who he was; but he was unknown to them. 
When he got right in the middle of the crowd he turned to the young 
men and young women and told them who he was and where he had 
been for the four days since he had disappeared; that he had great 
powers from the animal gods, including all the things he had and the 
change of his looks. He had been forbidden to tell this. When he 
reached home he told his people that he was Wrist-Guard-on-each- 
Wrist, once a crippled boy; but since he had been 'to Windy-Village- 
on-Hill-side he would no more be a cripple, for he had fasted upon the 
top of the mountain four long days and had received powers. He then 
put his things away, because he was now at home and thought no one 
could ever take away his things or his powers, since he was so far from 
the place where he had got his powers. At night great crowds of 
men came to visit him to see what sort of a man he was since being 
away. Women came and stood around outside, so that they might see 
him and get to marry him. That night, after everybody had gone out 
of the place, woman after woman came around, and they were refused 
entrance. Finally, a certain woman he wished for came around and 
went right to bed with him, for she thought that she was getting in 
bed with a fine young man. After they had gone to sleep all of his 
powers were taken away from him, and his good looks were changed, 
